Anyone who has spent a lifetime of crafting will appreciate how hard it is when you can no longer do what you love due to illness or other reasons. I've twice had to help people clear out their craft items (not including inheriting my mum's crafty bits), and it's heartbreaking. Even if I'm grateful for the windfall it brings me, I know how hard it must be for them.

In one of the bags I picked up the other week, there was this waistcoat. There is only one front and the bands to do. The least I can do, is get this finished and take it back.

This is going to be my next sit down project, and it's such a lovely pattern to work up. Hopefully, having the finished garment will go a small way to making her feel a bit better about parting with her treasure.

It would be so hard to give all my craft/sewing things away. Terri helped me thin mine out last year which felt good because it gave me room to move around in my rooms. But it was also a little hard. Can't wait to see it finished.

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Shez

3/8/2014 06:52:20 am

Hi Jane what a lovely sweet thing to do.xx

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Terry

3/8/2014 07:46:09 am

It's great you can finish it for your friend. I'm sure she'll appreciate it. :0)

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Sally

3/8/2014 08:24:02 am

I often feel that way, held captive by my blooming hands, shoulders, and the rest of my body! I can't sit comfortably anymore, cannot lift my arms up for longer than a few seconds and in pain 24/7. All I want to do is craft, create, sew, knit, crochet, create. And here I am, I have lots of almost completed things and have got simpler things to get on with but it's the joint pain that's such a distraction and the brain fog that goes with it, stops every wish. I never want to let it all go......

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Jane Galley

I have had a lifelong love of crafts which started with being taught how to knit at a very young age. It didn't take long to realise that great joy and satisfaction came from making things. Even now, I get a thrill seeing something that started just as an idea, becoming a finished product, whether I make it, or teach someone else how to make it. ​